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add me to the list of those who find sleeving lines both tedious and unnecessary. have used larkshead w/pull loop for years as easiest and simplest attachment method and cannot ever recall having line fail @ knot. usually failures are from heavilly used i.e. worn lines. find allan's attachment method intrigueing and may eliminate the need for a pull loop. simpler is better in my book.

I gave up sleeving Spectra years ago, and just make knotless loops on both ends.In fact, all of my hollow braid lines are knotless loops, looks a lot cleaner and doesn't take more than 5 minutes to do.

I gave up sleeving Spectra years ago, and just make knotless loops on both ends.In fact, all of my hollow braid lines are knotless loops, looks a lot cleaner and doesn't take more than 5 minutes to do.

Tried the two knot method Allen spoke of on a single line today. Larks-head on, holds great, pops right off. Even eaiser than grabbing the little loop on the end of the larks-headed loop. On the other hand, I have leaders on the ends of my line sets, but would be great for light wind line sets without leaders.

Just wanted to commit on what happened today. I was using a set of new lines from Prism with sleeving on the strap end only.

Winds around 20, launched a 6 -stack of Prism Catalyst's, two loops to the left to untwist the lines and snap,

Both lines let go, and the kites drifted another 100 feet before coming down. Of coarse they were quite tangled.

I checked the lines and both let go "at" the knot, I sleeved and equalized the lines and then back in the air. I had no more trouble with the lines. The kites still needed some tuning to get them to fly nice.

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